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Dopamine and sexual behaviour
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dopamine and sexual behaviourDopamine and sexual behaviour are linked in human. The research on this page explores dopamine arousal, sexual arousal and sexual behaviour. It may be somewhat different in women than men.

Lack of Increase in Sexual Drive and Function After Dopaminergic Stimulation in Women

Colocalization of Mating-Induced Fos and D2-Like Dopamine Receptors in the Medial Preoptic Area: Influence of Sexual Experience

Influences of social reward experience on behavioral responses to drugs of abuse: Review of shared and divergent neural plasticity mechanisms for sexual reward and drugs of abuse

The role of conditioning, learning and dopamine in sexual behavior: a narrative review of animal and human studies

Influences of dopamine and glutamate in the medial preoptic area on male sexual behavior

Male Sexual Behavior

The human sexual response cycle: brain imaging evidence linking sex to other pleasures

Positive Reinforcement Produced by Electrical Stimulation of the Septal Area and Other Regions of Rat Brain

Dynamic increases in dopamine during paced copulation in the female rat

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